Re: [IAEP] It's Time to Sign Up For Sensors!

2012-10-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:19:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [IAEP] It's Time to Sign Up For Sensors! From: curious...@gmail.com To: sthom...@gosargon.com CC: cbige...@hotmail.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org Hi, Looking forward to being in SF! I'm not ready to sit down for a sensor session

Re: [IAEP] It's Time to Sign Up For Sensors!

2012-10-13 Thread Yama Ploskonka
I must have missed it if there was any comment on it, but Claudia Urrea has been working on sensors for many years already - She was kind enough to show me a box with several ready to use sensors the time I was in OLPC headquarters in Boston, like 3 years ago? As the head of the education dept

Re: [IAEP] It's Time to Sign Up For Sensors!

2012-10-13 Thread Mike Lee
in it??? [image: Winking smile] -- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:19:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [IAEP] It's Time to Sign Up For Sensors! From: curious...@gmail.com To: sthom...@gosargon.com CC: cbige...@hotmail.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org Hi, Looking

Re: [IAEP] It's Time to Sign Up For Sensors!

2012-10-12 Thread Steve Thomas
Unfortunately I will not be in SF, but I am very interested in Sensors. Perhaps I can attend or see the final results if you do presentations via Google Hangout? I hope to be going to Haiti next March and plan to bring some lessons and an engineering challenge around the kids/adults building

Re: [IAEP] It's Time to Sign Up For Sensors!

2012-10-12 Thread Mike Lee
Hi, Looking forward to being in SF! I'm not ready to sit down for a sensor session, but here's a historical bit... I found one of XOExplosion.com's temperature sensor kits from 2008 and just posted photos and their parts list to Flickr:

[IAEP] It's Time to Sign Up For Sensors!

2012-10-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, It's crunch time! STEM, SET, SCIB... no matter what you call it, the world is focusing more and more on science and technology in education. The XO is an ideal platform for furthering science education through hands-on student based experiments that will teach and/or reinforce